I cannot for the life of me keep all the words for great (or greatly or considerable) straight, and which are tai and which are oo. I can generally get 大きい because it ends with -i and 大きさ by analogy but then there’s: 大いに大きな大した Ugh. I get the impression this is just a “keep studying” question, …

Thank you! This is very helpful.

大した is actually two words. 大, meaning big, and した is the past tense form of する, to do. So 大した is really “to make something big” which can be translated as “something good” or “great”. 大きさ and 大きい relate to size and the other posts about さ denoting the noun form of an adjective are pretty spot on: …

My tip for you would be to try to remember words not by their spelling (aka not by kanji), but by pronunciation aka kana. It works for me that I know the word たいした. Now, if I see 大した, my brain will try to recognize it. おおした? nope, not found, so that’s not it. だいした? nope, that’s not right either… たいし…

Welcome to the language where exceptions are very common. They start by telling you there are kun-yomi and on-yomi pronunciation to warm you up and then they go mayhem. Literally everything is mixed and you get exceptions quite often. Honestly, at this point I just try to learn without even caring…

This was very helpful. Thank you.

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Weirdmind April 22, 2019, 10:59pm 2

Here’s a similar thread. Hopefully something will help. I’m sure there are other threads with more answers but I remember posting on this one so here it is.

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